This application discloses an invention including a ceramic gradient microne insensitive to mask cavity acoustics, essentially flat in pressure response to 10,000 Hz for use in deep submergence helium atmospheres, and capable of withstanding compression, decompression and intermittent flooding. In essence, there is provided a microphone having a diaphragm mounted to a bimorph ring and includes a unique construction to provide improved frequency response and gradient characteristics, plus drainag…

A method of adaptively resolving contentions in a digital communication system is provided. A headend, such as a Base station Transceiver System, transmits a Media Access Control message to Customer Premise Equipment units. The Media Access Control message includes information on the current load on shared transmission resources. The Customer Premise Equipment units implement a truncated binary exponential back-off algorithm for requests. However if the current load on the transmission resources…

A communication network providing mobile IP services to mobile nodes sharing the same private IP address. A mobile node visits a foreign network from its home network and transmits a registration request including its private IP address to a foreign agent on the foreign network. If the foreign agent determines that another mobile node with a valid registration shares the same private IP address, the foreign agent requests the mobile node to use a temporary address. The temporary address is sent …

A QoS management apparatus in which the quality of the requested QoS for each path and different values of the state are managed. A QoS monitor, a registered QoS, and an operation determining function are provided for each path, and the QoS is precisely managed.

A system and method for performing the digital receive processing for multiple signals received over the same RF band is described. In a preferred embodiment of the invention, digital RF samples are stored in a queue which is accessed by a searcher and demodulator. The searcher and demodulator are preferably located on the same integrated circuit along with the queue. The demodulator demodulates a set of reverse link signals stored within the queue where each reverse link signal is received with…

A method, apparatus and article of manufacture for forwarding multicast data by relaying IGMP group membership. A router is used to build a database of a plurality of interfaces and corresponding multicast groups, and the database is stored on the router. Information from the database is reported upstream to a multicast router. Multicast data is received from the multicast router and distributed to the plurality of interfaces based upon the database.

A method and apparatus for controlling the flow of variable-length packets to a multiport switch involve accessing forwarding information in a memory based at least partially on layer 4 information from a packet and then forwarding the packet only if the packet is within a bandwidth consumption limit that is specified in the forwarding information. In a preferred embodiment, a credit bucket algorithm is used to ensure that packet flows are within specified bandwidth consumption limits. The prefe…

We have invented methods of and devices for introducing unequal error protection into spread spectrum communication systems. One embodiment of the invention addresses certain inefficiencies of the standard known as IS-95 used, for example, in some mobile direct sequence code division multiple access (“DS-CDMA”) phone systems. The invention allows for increased system capacity and/or improved quality. More specifically, spread spectrum multiple access (“SSMA”) coding may be combined with the conc…

A fault tolerant network using a dual cross path for real-time switching and packet handling method are disclosed. In DRDT-II, one of two packets received from two input ports is selected, the other is discarded, and two duplicated packets are transmitted through two output ports. That is, one link bypasses one node. In DRDT-III, the other link bypasses two nodes. Even when fault occurs in neighboring nodes at the same time, only these nodes are abandoned, and remaining nodes can be communicated…

At least a portion of the data units in a bridge/router device are analyzed for purposes of filtering by employing high speed logic circuits. A data unit is analyzed by such logic circuits by examining the header portion of the data unit, employing information obtained from the header portion to designate possible output ports for transmission of the data unit, examining a predefined per-port filter enable indicator to determine whether filtering is to be applied to the data unit, and applying f…